Article level and altmetrics

Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) attempt to measure impact at the article level. They can include traditional measures of impact such as citation counts as well as newer metrics like the number of times an article was downloaded. ALMs metrics can also include altmetrics.

A growing number of journals and publishing platforms are making Article-Level Metrics available. For example, ALMs are provided for every article published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Altmetrics are an alternative set of metrics that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics.

In addition to journal articles, altmetrics can measure the impact of a diverse array of online scholarly outputs such as books, book chapters, data sets, computer code, presentation slides, posters, blog posts, and websites.

Altmetrics are an indicator of online usage and measure the number of times a resource is mentioned, shared, downloaded or viewed, highlighting the public or social visibility of the output.

ACU Library provides access to Altmetric Explorer, a platform which allows researchers, funders and institutions to track and analyze research at the article level, reflecting online attention before citations appear.